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1 Intel s next generation processors for IBM System x servers Adesh Gupta Regional MNC Sales Intel Technology Asia Pte Ltd Rev 1.0 June 2011 KL Malaysia 1 All products, computer systems, dates, and figures specified are preliminary based on current expectations, and are subject to change without notice. This document contains information on products in the design phase of development. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright 2011, Intel Corporation.

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Congratulations to IBM for 100 years of tremendous achievement in the tech-sector 3 All products, computer systems, dates, and figures specified are preliminary based on current expectations, and are

3 Congratulations to IBM for 100 years of tremendous achievement in the tech-sector 3 All products, computer systems, dates, and figures specified are preliminary based on current expectations, and are subject to change without notice. This document contains information on products in the design phase of development. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright 2011, Intel Corporation.

IBM 100 th Anniversary IBM Intel 40 year

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4 IBM 100 th Anniversary IBM Intel 40 year Rich History Together Joint Platform and Technology Development : Platforms: IBM PC, Thinkpad, ex5, Bladecenter Technologies: AMA, Bluetooth, TCG, Infiniband, PCIeG3 Open Source: Xen, Harmony (Java), Core Linux Joint Marketing: Launches Blade.org Joint Sales: Teaming with Brand teams, Geo teams, and Sector >6M Xeon Server Units sold New Businesses and Opportunities Systems/Software Solutions, Networking, Storage IBM BladeCenter Thank you for the years of partnership! We look forward to working with you for the next century and beyond 4 4 All products, computer systems, dates, and figures specified are preliminary based on current expectations, and are subject to change without notice. This document contains information on products in the design phase of development. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright 2011, Intel Corporation.

Two key trends driving Server Growth 1 Rapid Growth of Smart Devices will lead to an Explosion in Server Workloads In 2011, twice as many smart mobile devices will ship

Research The Unix market has been, and will continue to be, in decline during the rest of this decade, according to our projections.

George Weiss s June 2010 Impact of the Next Generation x86 on the Server Market.

that include drives to reduce hardware and software costs; to simplify management of workloads; to optimize performance; and to improve system flexibility, such as the

By bringing RAS features to the x86 architecture, Intel has laid the groundwork for customers to move away from RISC.

5 Two key trends driving Server Growth 1 Rapid Growth of Smart Devices will lead to an Explosion in Server Workloads In 2011, twice as many smart mobile devices will ship than laptop devices >30M physical servers currently installed: growing 4X next 10 years 2 Appetite for Large servers: Mission Critical is migrating to Xeon Gartner Research The Unix market has been, and will continue to be, in decline during the rest of this decade, according to our projections. The price points are high, when compared to x86 systems, while the value proposition gap between Unix and x86 systems will continue to diminish. George Weiss s June 2010 Impact of the Next Generation x86 on the Server Market. Chart Source: IDC there will be continued consolidation and contraction in the Unix server market, while the x86-based market will continue to grow driven by factors that include drives to reduce hardware and software costs; to simplify management of workloads; to optimize performance; and to improve system flexibility, such as the ability to flexibly add capacity. IDC, White Paper Sponsored by Intel, "Following Downturn, Platform Migration Accelerates," Doc.#226744, Feb By bringing RAS features to the x86 architecture, Intel has laid the groundwork for customers to move away from RISC. Jim McGregor, chief technology strategist for In-Stat March 30, All products, computer systems, dates, and figures specified are preliminary based on current expectations, and are subject to change without notice. This document contains information on products in the design phase of development. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright 2011, Intel Corporation.

6 Mission Critical Innovation Accelerates on Intel Xeon 6 All products, computer systems, dates, and figures specified are preliminary based on current expectations, and are subject to change without notice. This document contains information on products in the design phase of development. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright 2011, Intel Corporation.

RISC Migration Transition to Standards-Based Computing 7 All products, computer systems, dates, and figures specified are preliminary based on current expectations, and are subject to change

7 RISC Migration Transition to Standards-Based Computing 7 All products, computer systems, dates, and figures specified are preliminary based on current expectations, and are subject to change without notice. This document contains information on products in the design phase of development. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright 2011, Intel Corporation.

Top of the Line Capabilities Networking Enterprise Data Center High Performance Computing Cost Effective

Performance with Top-to-Bottom Security Engaged with IBM across all the product lines 8 All products,

8 Top of the Line Capabilities Networking Enterprise Data Center High Performance Computing Cost Effective Unified Networking Cloud Service Providers Storage Ideal Entry-level Server Small Business Efficient Performance with Top-to-Bottom Security Engaged with IBM across all the product lines 8 All products, computer systems, dates, and figures specified are preliminary based on current expectations, and are subject to change without notice. This document contains information on products in the design phase of development. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright 2011, Intel Corporation.

9 Intel Xeon Processor E Based Platforms Are More Capable Max Cores & Threads Xeon 5600 Xeon E % Better 12/24 40/80 3.3X Benefits Performance to meet most data demanding applications Max Cache (last level) CPU Sockets Max Memory Capacity Max Memory Slots Max I/O Slots RAS Features X 2 4 2X 288GB 2 TB 7X X X Standard Class Mission Critical Reduce latency with more data on the processor Significant perf. boost for big workloads, perf. headroom, consolidation & growth More performance for big datasets via reduced hard drive accesses Memory cost savings & expandability thru use of lower cost DIMMs Greater I/O density for high bandwidth networks Highest class of availability reduces downtime risks to business and IT Intel Xeon processor E based servers have more performance, scaling, and reliability 9 For more details see the Intel Xeon E7 8800/4800/2800 product families and Intel Xeon 5600 processor series product briefs at Intel s IT Center website: All products, computer systems, dates, and figures specified are preliminary based on current expectations, and are subject to change without notice. This document contains information on products in the design phase of development. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright 2011, Intel Corporation.

10 4S Servers Make Good Business Sense 4-socket systems can process the biggest workloads maximize consolidation increase system uptime handle highly variable workloads Intel Xeon Processor E Product Family vs. Xeon Processor 5600 Series Large Workloads & Max. Consolidation Over 2X the compute performance across a range of benchmarks 1 Up to 7X memory capacity for greater performance, headroom and memory DIMM savings 2 Up to 2X higher consolidation 3 Highly Variable Workloads More performance headroom to handle peak, unexpected, or underestimated workloads Compute, memory and I/O scalability extends useful server life in highgrowth workloads Denser compute resources per server maximizes performance in constrained sites Mission Critical Class System Availability Protects your data by preventing errors Increased availability via healing, redundancy and failover technologies Minimized downtime via failure prediction and proactive replacement of failing components Software and workloads used in performance tests may have been optimized for performance only on Intel microprocessors. Performance tests, such as SYSmark and MobileMark, are measured using specific computer systems, components, software, operations and functions. Any change to any of those factors may cause the results to vary. You should consult other information and performance tests to assist you in fully evaluating your contemplated purchases, including the performance of that product when combined with other products Results have been estimated based on internal Intel analysis and are provided for informational purposes only. Any difference in system hardware or software design or configuration may affect actual performance. For more information on performance tests and on the performance of Intel products, visit DIMM slots vs. 18 slots for the Xeon 5600 processor series platform 3. 2X higher consolidation refresh ratio based on ROI tool comparing Xeon 7500 and Xeon 5600 vs.. older generations.

11 Memory RAS comparison Xeon E7 product family vs Xeon 5600 RAS Feature Xeon E7 Xeon 5600 Bandwidth Capacity Bandwidth Capacity x4 SDDC 100% 100% 100% 100% x8 SDDC 100% 100% 67% 67% Lock Step 100% 100% 67% 67% Mirroring 50% 50% 33% 33% DIMM Sparing 100% 50-87% 1,2,4 67% 67% Rank Sparing 100% 50-93% 1,3,4 Not supported Not Supported Available Bandwidth and Capacity (Higher is better, 100% is target) MORE Memory RAS features with LESS adverse performance impact (vs. Xeon 5500/5600 Series) 11 Table shows available memory bandwidth and memory capacity when each RAS feature is enabled on each platform vs. the maximum possible bandwidth or capacity for the platform 1. Assuming a 4S system with 4 CPU s and equal memory behind each CPU s memory controller, sparing enabled on all Mem. Ctlr s 2. 50% capacity with 4 DIMMs per memory controller installed. 87% capacity with 8 DIMMs per memory controller installed 3. 50% capacity with 2 DR DIMMs per memory controller installed. 93% capacity with 8 QR DIMMs per memory controller installed 4. Greater capacity possible if not all memory controllers enable sparing.

2- to 4-Socket Performance Scaling Intel Xeon Processor 5600 series vs. E7-4800 product family Selling up to 4-socket systems 4x Xeon E7-4870 (Westmere-EX 2.40GHz) vs. 2x Xeon X5690 (Westmere-EP 3.

12 2- to 4-Socket Performance Scaling Intel Xeon Processor 5600 series vs. E product family Selling up to 4-socket systems 4x Xeon E (Westmere-EX 2.40GHz) vs. 2x Xeon X5690 (Westmere-EP 3.46GHz) Relative Performance. Higher is better x Xeon X5690 (3.46GHz) Baseline 4x Intel Xeon Processor E (30M cache, 2.40GHz, 6.40GT/s QPI) TPC-E OLTP Brokerage SQL Database STREAM_ Memory MP Bandwidth LINPACK Matrix Multiply Enterprise SAP Resource SD 2T Planning SPECint_ Integer Through-put rate_ base2006 Virtualized Floating- SPECfp_ SPECmpiM SPECvirt SPECjbb Middle-Tier Point HPC MPI Consolidation rate_ 2007 Base _sc 2005-IBM-J9 Java* Through-put base OLTP Ware- TPC-C house Oracle Database Massive capacity improvements in compute, memory, and I/O on 4S E7 family delivers up to 2.9x the performance of 2S 5600 series 12 Software and workloads used in performance tests may have been optimized for performance only on Intel microprocessors. Performance tests, such as SYSmark and MobileMark, are measured using specific computer systems, components, software, operations and functions. Any change to any of those factors may cause the results to vary. You should consult other information and performance tests to assist you in fully evaluating your contemplated purchases, including the performance of that product when combined with other products. Configuration details: See notes section.

Intel Delivering a New Era of Mission Critical Computing Xeon E7-4800 vs.

600% Performance at ~ 50% System Cost Reduce Costs with Interoperable, Industry Standard Xeon Processor 13 Source:

Software and workloads used in performance tests may have been optimized for performance only on Intel microprocessors.

operations and functions. Any change to any of those factors may cause the results to vary.

13 Intel Delivering a New Era of Mission Critical Computing Xeon E vs. latest SPARC* Oracle* T3-4 SUN M4000* Xeon E Xeon E Up to ~ 160% Performance at ~ 50% System Cost Up to ~ 600% Performance at ~ 50% System Cost Reduce Costs with Interoperable, Industry Standard Xeon Processor 13 Source: Published results as of Aprtl 5th See backup slides for details. Software and workloads used in performance tests may have been optimized for performance only on Intel microprocessors. Performance tests, such as SYSmark and MobileMark, are measured using specific computer systems, components, software, operations and functions. Any change to any of those factors may cause the results to vary. You should consult other information and performance tests to assist you in fully evaluating your contemplated purchases, including the performance of that product when combined with other products. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.

4S Enterprise Benchmark Competitive Performance Summary Intel Xeon Processor E7-4800 Product Family vs. AMD Opteron* Relative Performance Higher is better Publications 1.43 1.46 1.48 1.68 1.

x GHz) General Purpose Intensive Server-side Java* Middleware Enterprise Resource Planning Datacenter Virtualized Server Mgmt OLTP Database Brokerage vs. 6180SE vs.

14 4S Enterprise Benchmark Competitive Performance Summary Intel Xeon Processor E Product Family vs. AMD Opteron* Relative Performance Higher is better Publications Best Published 4-socket AMD Opteron* 61xx (12C, 2.x GHz) General Purpose Intensive Server-side Java* Middleware Enterprise Resource Planning Datacenter Virtualized Server Mgmt OLTP Database Brokerage vs. 6180SE vs. 6176SE vs. 6180SE vs. 6180SE vs socket Intel Xeon Processor E (30M Cache, 2.40 GHz, 6.40 GT/s Intel QPI) Baseline SPECint*_ rate_ base2006 SPECjbb* 2005 SAP* SD 2-tier VMmark* 2 TPC Benchmark* E NOTE: some publications on 4S AMD Opteron use the 6174 or 6176SE model as the top result with no 6180SE results available. Xeon E delivers top benchmark performance for lower TCO Source: All results based on publications as of 5 April See notes section for more information. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Software and workloads used in performance tests may have been optimized for performance only on Intel microprocessors. Performance tests, such as SYSmark and MobileMark, are measured using specific computer systems, components, software, operations and functions. Any change to any of those factors may cause the results to vary. You should consult other information and performance 14 tests to assist you in fully evaluating your contemplated purchases, including the performance of that product when combined with other products. Configurations: see Notes section. For more information go to

Intel Xeon Processor 5600 Series An Intelligent Choice for Server Refresh in 2011 Better Energy Efficiency with same performance as X5570 and up to 30% lower power 1 Performance

estimated 5-month payback 3 Now is the Time to Refresh! 15 1 Source: Fujitsu Performance measurements comparing Xeon L5650 vs X5570 SKUs using SPECint_rate_base2006. See http://docs.ts.fujitsu.

Xeon X5570 on BlackScholes*. 3 Source: Intel measurements as of Feb 2010. Performance comparison using server side java bops (business operations per second).

15 Intel Xeon Processor 5600 Series An Intelligent Choice for Server Refresh in 2011 Better Energy Efficiency with same performance as X5570 and up to 30% lower power 1 Performance Leadership with up to 67% performance boost over Xeon 5500 servers 2 More Secure with Intel AES New Instructions and Intel Trusted Execution Technology Up to 15:1 consolidation with estimated 5-month payback 3 Now is the Time to Refresh! 15 1 Source: Fujitsu Performance measurements comparing Xeon L5650 vs X5570 SKUs using SPECint_rate_base2006. See and 2 Source: Internal Intel measurements for Xeon X5680 vs. Xeon X5570 on BlackScholes*. 3 Source: Intel measurements as of Feb Performance comparison using server side java bops (business operations per second). Results have been estimated based on internal Intel analysis and are provided for informational purposes only. For notes and disclaimers, see performance and legal information slides at end of this presentation.

16 Intel Xeon Processor 5600 series based Server platforms Historical Integer Throughput performance on SPECint*_rate_base2006 ( ) General Purpose Computing SPECint*_rate_base2006 Single Core Dual Core Quad Core Six Core (New) Baseline Score Higher is better x Xeon KB L2 (2001) Xeon KB L2 (2002) Xeon M L3 (2003) Xeon M L3 (2004) 15.5 Xeon M L2 (2004) 20.9 Xeon M L2 (2005) 60.5 Xeon M L2 DC (2006) 99.1 Xeon M L2 QC (2007) Xeon M L2 QC (2008) Xeon ML3 QC (2009) Xeon ML3 6C 6.4 GT/s QPI (2011) 16 Consolidate your IT infrastructure with Xeon 5600 series Software and workloads used in performance tests may have been optimized for performance only on Intel microprocessors. Performance tests, such as SYSmark and MobileMark, are measured using specific computer systems, components, software, operations and functions. Any change to any of those factors may cause the results to vary. You should consult other information and performance tests to assist you in fully evaluating your contemplated purchases, including the performance of that product when combined with other products. Source: Server performance based on best publically available SPECint_rate_base2006* results from as of June 13, For the result s from (first five bars in the chart) performance scores are based on Intel internal estimates. For more information go to

17 2S AMD MC & Intel Xeon 5600 Performance Publications AMD Opteron* 6100 Series node 1.45 Intel Xeon Processor 5600 Series Baseline SPECfp_rate*_ base2006 SPECjbb*2005 SPECint*_rate_ base2006 TPC* C SAP-SD* 2 Tier Vmmark* v1.1.1 SPECpower_ ssj*2008 TPC* E SPECint* _base2006 SPECfp* _base2006 Xeon 5600 Maintains Broad Enterprise Leadership 17 Software and workloads used in performance tests may have been optimized for performance only on Intel microprocessors. Performance tests, such as SYSmark and MobileMark, are measured using specific computer systems, components, software, operations and functions. Any change to any of those factors may cause the results to vary. You should consult other information and performance tests to assist you in fully evaluating your contemplated purchases, including the performance of that product when combined with other products. Source: All Intel & AMD* results based on submitted/approved/published results as of June 13, See backup for details. For more information go to

18 Virtualization Performance VMmark* with VMware* ESX (Best Current Intel & AMD 2S & 4S VMmark results) VMmark Score Virtualization Performance (VMmark*) Absolute VMmark scores (rounded to whole numbers) Higher is better % 12-Core AMD Six-Core Intel Opteron 6176SE Xeon X GHz (Magny 3.33GHz (WSM Cours) EP) % 12-Core AMD 8-Core Intel Opteron 6176SE Xeon X GHz (Magny 2.26GHz (NHM Cours) EX) Per Core Performance Performance/Core (VMmark*) VMmark* Performance per core Higher is better Performance / Core = Best posted VMmark score / number of cores % 12-Core AMD Six-Core Intel Opteron 6176SE Xeon X GHz (Magny 3.33GHz (WSM Cours) EP) % 12-Core AMD 8-Core Intel Opteron 6174 Xeon X GHz (Magny 2.26GHz (NHM Cours) EX) VMmark 1 VMmark 2 VMmark 1 VMmark 2 2 Socket 4 Socket 2 Socket 4 Socket Unless noted otherwise, source: (Best published scores as of 6/1/11) 18 Intel: Fewer cores, better performance, much better per core performance! Performance tests and ratings are measured using specific computer systems and/or components and reflect the approximate performance of Intel products as measured by those tests. Any difference in system hardware or software design or configuration may affect actual performance. Buyers should consult other sources of information to evaluate the performance of systems or components they are considering purchasing. For more information on performance tests and on the performance of Intel products, visit or call (U.S.) or Copyright 2010, Intel Corporation. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.

19 Intel Xeon Processor 5600 series based Server platforms Energy Efficiency Leadership on SPECpower*_ssj2008 The top 40 2S Single Node SPECpower* results were achieved on Intel Xeon Processor 5600 Series based systems Rank Score Processor(s) Java* VM x Intel Xeon X5675 IBM* J9 VM x Intel Xeon X5675 IBM* J9 VM x Intel Xeon X5675 IBM* J9 VM x Intel Xeon X5670 IBM* J9 VM x Intel Xeon L5640 IBM* J9 VM x AMD Opteron* 6174 IBM* J9 VM The best published 2S single node result on a Magny Cours based platform comes in at #41 19 Software and workloads used in performance tests may have been optimized for performance only on Intel microprocessors. Performance tests, such as SYSmark and MobileMark, are measured using specific computer systems, components, software, operations and functions. Any change to any of those factors may cause the results to vary. You should consult other information and performance tests to assist you in fully evaluating your contemplated purchases, including the performance of that product when combined with other products. Source: Published/Submitted/Approved SPECpower*_ssj2008 overall ssj_ops/watt results from as of 13 June For more information go to

20 20 What s coming in Q4 for 2S Servers

Sandy Bridge Server Platform Summary New micro-architecture on the 32nm process technology More Efficient Higher performance Lower platform power 1 Platform Features Up to 8 cores, 20 MB cache New

0 Improved Platform Power Management Capabilities Sandy Bridge-EP QPI More Secure Intel AES-NI improvements More robust Intel TXT solutions Up to 2 QPI links between CPUs Up to 8 Cores Up to 4

21 Sandy Bridge Server Platform Summary New micro-architecture on the 32nm process technology More Efficient Higher performance Lower platform power 1 Platform Features Up to 8 cores, 20 MB cache New Intel Advanced Vector Extensions Intel Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 More Intelligent Intel Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 Improved Platform Power Management Capabilities Sandy Bridge-EP QPI More Secure Intel AES-NI improvements More robust Intel TXT solutions Up to 2 QPI links between CPUs Up to 8 Cores Up to 4 channels DDR memory More Options Optimized platforms for: Performance Smaller Form Factors Best value Integrated PCI Express* 3.0 Up to 40 lanes per socket 1 Lower platform power claim based on a Xeon 5600 CPU and Sandy Bridge-EP CPU with the same TDP specification and comparable platform configurations. Platform power reduction is primarily attributed to TDP reduction from a two-chip solution based on the Intel 5520 chip set and ICH-10R, down to a one-chip south bridge solution(patsburg chip) on the Sandy Bridge platform. 21

infrastructure apps (up to 4S) Cloud Computing Efficient, secure, and open platforms for Internet datacenters and IAAS High Performance Computing Bandwidth-optimized for high performance analytics &

22 Xeon Family stack Small Business Economical and more dependable vs. desktop More features and performance than traditional desktop systems Mainstream Enterprise Best combination of performance, power efficiency, and cost Enterprise Server Versatility for infrastructure apps (up to 4S) Cloud Computing Efficient, secure, and open platforms for Internet datacenters and IAAS High Performance Computing Bandwidth-optimized for high performance analytics & visualization Scalable Enterprise Top-of-the-line performance, scalability, and reliability Mission Critical Performance and reliability for the most business critical workloads with outstanding economics Cloud Computing Highest virtualization density and advanced reliability for private cloud High Performance Computing Greater scaling and memory capacity Increasing capability 22

23 Platform leadership and industry innovation on Intel Xeon Processor Boosts Performance, Lowers IT Costs, Future-Proofs Copyright 2011, Intel Corporation. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.

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